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[–] 52 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Haha, hit em where it hurts: right in the stock market.

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  • [–] [S] 30 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Not funny think of their portfolios you callous jerk

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago*

    No, this is a valid military target.

    They're doing this because aws is running the cloud computing for the US military, which is using AI to process SIGINT and then determine which schools to bomb in Iran.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 months ago

    Is it gauche to say "Good" ?

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  • [–] 19 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Do you want support for Iran? Because this is how you get support for Iran.

    Jokes aside it is a weird feeling to approve of something done by a regime I am otherwise so opposed to.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    Just a reminder 2/3 of the internet runs on AWS

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  • [–] 36 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    ... Which you would think would be enough of a monopoly to break a company apart.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    Nah it's really not that bad

    If the company also controlled a significant portion of commerce, had its own distribution and warehouses, and maybe had an entertainment and media division too, then it might be a problem.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Just a reminder that aws has military contracts

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    AWS has at least two entire regions that are airgapped, exist within US military bases, are mostly airgapped, and require anyone working in or with them to have TS/SCI security clearances, to the point where AWS will facilitate (and award salary bumps for) employees getting those clearances.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    In technology, we are constantly being beaten about resiliency. Two of everything. Two locations.

    However, we never do two providers. There are services that overlay the control of different cloud providers to create what appears to be a single platform. Maybe those will become more popular if aws continues to be a target.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    my last workplace used the top three cloud providers, though mostly because it helped with sales since customers on Azure wouldn't necessarily have to deal with AWS stuff (even if we really preferred to touch Azure)

    it was a huge pain in a lot of ways, but manageable, and downright smart to not be at the mercy of just AWS or GCP

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago
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    Please do UAE google servers next 🙏

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    What kind of dumbass builds a data center in the middle east?

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago

    A company that has operations in the Middle East. Proximity matters quite a bit when networking at scale. Networking across Tier 1/2 carriers gets expensive quickly, and is hard to justify when you can put the datacenter closer to the customers.

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